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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Former NRC commissioners lend support to efforts to eliminate mandatory hearings
A group of nine former nuclear regulatory commissioners sent a letter Wednesday to the current Nuclear Regulatory Commission members lending support to efforts to get rid of mandatory hearings in the licensing process, which should speed up the process by three to six months and save millions of dollars.
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Monday, November 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Sonoran 2
Session Chair:
Nancy J. Lybeck
Alternate Chair:
Vivek Agarwal
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Development of the Methodology for Degradation Emulation of Primary Salt Pump in High-Temperature Fluoride Salt Test Facility
3:15–3:35PM MST
Dongyeol Yeo (Univ. Michigan), Victor Petrov (Univ. Michigan), Annalisa Manera (Univ. Michigan)
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Transfer Learning Long Short-Term Memory (TL-LSTM) Network for Molten Salt Reactor Sensor Monitoring
3:35–3:55PM MST
Stella Pantopoulou (Purdue), Anthonie Cilliers (Kairos Power), Lefteri Tsoukalas (Purdue), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Multi-Sensor Data Acquisition System for Monitoring Fuel Reprocess Systems
3:55–4:15PM MST
J.D. Hix (INL), J.T. Johnson (INL), E.S. Cardenas (INL), L. A. Ocampo Giraldo (INL)
Neuro-Fuzzy Predictive Power Controller for a Nuclear Research Reactor
4:15–4:35PM MST
Rita Appiah (Purdue), Muhammad Rizki Oktavian (Purdue), Lefteri H. Tsoukalas (Purdue)
Forecasting of Nuclear Reactor Outages Using Machine Learning
4:35–4:55PM MST
Konstantinos Prantikos (Purdue), Lefteri H. Tsoukalas (Purdue), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
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